Make-Ahead Breakfast Casserole

If you’ve got family staying with you, or just have all the kids home from school and want to feed a small crowd something hearty and simple tomorrow morning, here’s a recipe I like to bring out around the holidays and I thought you might like it too!
★ The great thing about this, is you can pour it all in the dish and cover it before you go to bed, and then stick it in the oven while the coffee’s brewing in the morning!

Breakfast Casserole

1 can crescent rolls (I used 2, in a giant roasting pan, for my little crowd)

1 dozen eggs (or thereabouts…)

2 c. shredded cheese (Got any stored in the freezer? This would be a perfect use!)

1 lb. cooked breakfast meat (Sausage, ham, bacon – whatever you have on hand. One time I even used Bacon Bits. It was not too bad actually.)

Salt and pepper to taste

Salsa, chiles, mushroom, onions, etc if you like it fancy!

Directions:

Grease a 9 x 13 inch casserole dish.

Flatten out your unbaked crescent rolls in the bottom for the “crust”. (If you’re spreading it thickly, you might want to stick it in the oven for 5 minutes while you get the rest ready – that way you make sure it’s not doughy at the end.)

Pour cooked meat evenly over “crust”.

Pour beaten eggs over the meat.

Pour cheese over layer of eggs.

Bake at 350 degrees for 35 – 45 minutes or until set (this time varies depending on how many eggs you used).

Apple Cinnamon Freezer Pancakes Recipe

Jamie here! Today is National Pancake Day, so I thought it was a good time to remind you that pancakes are a great way to use up those apples and bananas that are starting to go soft! You can make a big batch and freeze them for easy school morning breakfasts

I may have mentioned before to you that I am not a morning person. My kids know this – and yet they still suffer under delusions that I might get a wild hair one morning, hop out of bed early and whip up a batch of pancakes before they leave for school. The poor dears.

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Jamie here, being frugal often means being creative – making do with less, and making it into more! I told my husband that if I could get a gold medal for only one thing – it would probably be the ability to “Make Do” when I don’t have something that I need.

I wanted to make something sweet for my family this Valentine’s Day – and I wanted that sweet thing to be chocolate chip pancakes before school. But not just ANY chocolate chip pancakes: I wanted to make them in the shape of hearts.

Just one problem…. I don’t have any heart-shaped pancake molds or even metal cookie cutters to use. I did have some plastic heart cookie cutters though, and I figured I could somehow MacGyver heart molds out of tin foil. I set out to experiment and did a trial run with my all-too-willing preschooler. Here’s how to make them!

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1) Start with a plastic heart-shaped cookie cutter – even if you just have one, you can make several molds. Do these a few days ahead, and you’ll be ready to cook up some love come Valentine’s morning!

We thought it would be fun to countdown to Christmas each night with a fun Christmas craft, recipe, family tradition and all things holly jolly.

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Kasey’s Moms Breakfast Casserole

“Christmas” Sausage Strata - My mom made this every year on Christmas morning for as long as I can remember. Now, I do the same for my family. Even though I don’t particularly like sausage, I love my mom’s Christmas Sausage Strata. This week the kids and I are going to go ahead and prepare our Christmas Sausage Casserole for Christmas morning to put in the freezer.! On Christmas Eve, I’ll take it out of the freezer and place in the fridge overnight to thaw out. Then, on Christmas morning while we are opening gifts I’ll pop it in the oven.

We thought it would be fun to countdown to Christmas each night with a fun Christmas craft, recipe, family tradition and all things holly jolly.

This week has been filled with Christmas baking at the Trenum home. Earlier this week, we made Party Mix, Snowman Crunch, and Christmas sugar cookies!! I was feeling really behind, until then. Still lots of baking to do but at least we got started. In case you are looking for easy recipes to make with your kids, my kids helped with these! During the month of December we are still following our healthy eating at meal time as often as possible but we do add in special treats we make.

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My family loves all things pumpkin! I’m always looking for healthy breakfast recipes to try out, I thought pumpkin and oatmeal would make the perfect combination. You could even make pumpkin oatmeal in a slow cooker and wake up to yummy homemade goodness in the morning. I decided to make it this morning, so I’ll have to try using my slow cooker next time. [Read more...]